By Paul Clinton
Dexter Sinister, diagram showing statement of intent for the Serving Library Company Inc., 2010. Courtesy Serving Library, New York.
The autonomist Marxism of Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, the paranoia of American politics and the subversive potential of the selfie: a round-up of the best things we’ve read online this week
- At Film Comment, an interview with the Portuguese-American filmmaker Gabriel Abrantes.
- ‘I was fed by its vibration’ – writer and critic Luc Sante finds the New York of his youth in the fragments of his archive.
- As extreme conservatism tightens its grip on the Republican Party, we revisit Richard Hoftstadter’s landmark essay, The Paranoid Style in American Politics.
- Over at the New Inquiry, Aria Dean considers the racial tensions underlying the use of selfies in feminist art practices.
- Roberta Smith and Holland Cotter take an early look at the newly opened Met Breuer for the New York Times Magazine.
- Are the days of media plurality on the internet finally over?
- ‘When you say solidarity, I translate that into empathy.’ Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi talks to Seth Wheeler for The White Review.
- Andrew O’Hagan considers Jean Stein’s new stories of old Hollywood for the London Review of Books.
- A history of LA’s home of experimental cinema, Pasadena Filmforum.
- How does the devil take his tea? At home with the head of the Church of Satan.